Maxtor HDD DEAD??

Ok guys this is a special problem over here...

Is just weird... I'll put it as simple as possible.

Just of the sudden

1st HDD was being recognized by windows but windows was not displaying its label, when I tried to access it it was saying it was not formated.

2nd Windows didn't recognize it anymore, although any restoration program like Partition Table Doctor, would recognize it... I made all backups and everything...

I found out that the problem was probably caused by corrupt MFT or MBR and I tried to resolve it... My bad... I guess I screwed up the whole drive.

I tried to format it with the XP CD... quick format said that couldn't be completed due to problems with drive... extended format just made the system hung every time I tried it.

I deleted all partitions, and then BIOS wont recognize the HDD at all...

I tried several programs to restore master boot record or make low level format just with hope but none of them detects my HDD... Only the Powermax diagnostic tool (it says that repairs the drive but nothing happens) and a program called MHDD Ver 4.6 (it reads the HDD but when I try the Fdisk or any option that try to write to HDD just make the system Hung)

Is just totally frustrating to lose 40GB because of nothing...

Info:

Maxtor 40GB 6E40L0 (firmware is ok... MHDD software reads all the HDD info without problems, but cant write MBR to it, nor FDISK changes can be made)

Might be Damaged clusters, I tried HDD regenerator, but it doesn't detect the HDD either...

Any info?

Post here table SMART if you can read this with MHDD. Many slim Maxtor has firmware problems. If the bios recognize a generic name: Ares, N04, Romulus..etc the firmware is bad.
Regards

Check the condition of the through MHDD or Victoria by scanning the media of the Hdd .

Ok... Firmware is ok as I mentioned before, the smart table was disabled and I used MHDD to enable it... but I'm not getting info from the HDD If I try to make scans, MHDD does it I can move through the HDD without problems... thats what I see, but if I try to do the ERASE or FDISK it says HDD not ready... I can do the INIT or the I and EID options... if I try to make the WRITE&READ scan it says "device not ready" or "faulty HDD"... Im not quite sure whats happening.

It seems to be that the motor of the hdd is running fine cause when I try the SCAN option at MHDD I can "pass through HDD clusters" or thats what it makes me believe... but I cant write or read from HDD at all... except for the basic information... ID option gives me the basic info... so it actually reads something from HDD...

I tried RESET... it says it does the reset it but nothing new happens... I also tried ERASE or FASTERASE... nothing it brings back "device not ready" or "faulty disk"

I've lost all the hope Im starting to think I just completely lost the Harddrive... but at least I want to know what happened?? what was the problem....??

Hi,

Most often these drives suffer from writing problems when they heat up a bit.
Probably the FW area is messed up a bit too.
Don't be sad about the drive, give thanks U got the backups

pepe

here is SMART table information:

Model : Maxtor 2F040L0
Firmware : VAM51JJ0
Serial : F1B3YFXE

S.M.A.R.T. attributes

Att Description Value Worst RAW Thresh
003 Spin Up Time 236 232 0000000011E5 063
004 Start/Stop Count 253 253 00000000048C 000
005 Reallocation Sector Count 249 249 000000000017 063
006 Read Channel Margin 253 253 000000000000 100
007 Seek Error Rate 253 252 000000000000 000
008 Seek time Perfomance 249 240 00000000E9CE 187
009 PowerOn Hours Count 240 240 000000004D11 000
010 Spin Retry Count 253 252 000000000000 157
011 Recalibration Retries 253 249 000000000000 223
012 Device Power Cycle Count 249 249 00000000077C 000
192 Power-off retract count 253 253 0000000002E7 000
193 Load/unload cycle count 252 252 0000000011CD 000
194 HDA Temperature 253 253 54°C 000
195 Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 000000009A34 000
196 Reallocation Event Count 253 253 000000000000 000
197 Current Pending Sector Count 253 246 000000000000 000
198 Uncorrectable Sector Count 253 253 000000000000 000
199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 146 028 0000000000D3 000
200 Write Error Rate 253 253 000000000000 000
201 Soft Read Error Rate 253 252 000000000000 000
202 Data Address Mark Errors 253 253 000000000000 000
203 ECC Errors 253 253 000000000000 180
204 Soft ECC Corrections Count 253 253 000000000000 000
205 Termal Aspirates Errors 253 253 000000000000 000
207 Spin Current 253 252 000000000000 000
208 Spin Buzzes 253 252 000000000000 000
209 Offline Seek Perfomance 163 160 000000000000 000
099 Average FHC 253 253 000000000000 000
100 Minimum FHC 253 253 000000000000 000
101 Maximum FHC 253 253 000000000000 000

Can some one explain it to me? cause is the first time that I work with SMART information.

to much temprature value 54°C backup ur data hdd going to blast

This HDD the one that Im using right now is giving me 52°C its 1 of 2 OR the MAXTORs HDDs are like that or this one is going to die too, The HDD wich I posted the first time Is dead... but if what you tell me is true this one is dying too.